Sports geeks consider “Long Gone,” a 1987 made-for-TV film at HBO, the best baseball movie you never saw about a minor league ball club set in the Florida panhandle in 1957. Â William Petersen (“To Live and Die in LA”) stars as player/manager Stud Cantrell of the Tampico Stogies in Class […]
In 1984, Barry Levinson directed “The Natural” starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, a mysterious middle-aged rookie with a checkered past who comes out of nowhere to lead the worst team in the National League, the New York Knights, to the pennant. TriStar made “The Natural” on a budget of […]
“The Bad News Bears,” a baseball movie directed by Michael Ritchie in 1976, featured an alcoholic, washed-up minor leaguer (Walter Matthau) coaching a tomboy pitcher (Tatum O’Neal) on a team of misfits in the ultra-competitive North Valley Little League. The legendary Walter Matthau signed on to play the curmudgeon coach […]
In 1992, Penny Marshall directed “A League of Their Own,” a baseball film set during World War II about two sisters, played by Geena Davis and Lori Petty, who join the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Tom Hanks plays Jimmy Duggan, the alcoholic manager of […]
“Bull Durham”, a 1988 film about a season with the Durham Bulls minor league baseball team, follows an aging catcher (Kevin Costner) named Crash Davis and a talented but eccentric young pitcher (Tim Robbins) who both compete for the affections of a local English literature professor (Susan Sarandon). “Bull Durham”, […]
“Major League”, a 1989 comedy written and directed by Academy Award winner David S. Ward and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Bob Uecker, and Wesley Snipes, is one of the most-quoted baseball movies of all time. “Major League” marks the film debut of Rene Russo and Dennis Haysbert. Former catcher […]
Kevin Costner appears in several baseball movies, but “Field of Dreams” with James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson is the one sports film which achieved both critical acclaim and became a huge box office success. The legendary actor Burt Lancaster plays the role of Dr. Archie […]
In 1988, John Sayles wrote and directed “Eight Men Out”, a baseball movie starring John Cusak and Charlie Sheen, which chronicles the Chicago Black Sox scandal after the team fixed the 1919 World Series. The Chicago White Sox won the World Series in 1917 but were favorites to win the […]
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